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When fire exists at a plasma state, which would be the state of matter to turn in turn into fire?

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Answered by Anonymous
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Explanation:

There are four fundamental properties:

Gas

Liquid

Solid

…and plasma

It’s not a solid, so we can rule that out right off the bat, but it’s not really a liquid. Would we consider fire a gas? Not exactly. Probably not plasma, either. That’s when it comes to asking where we officially classify fire.

The first thing to do to officially break this down is to figure out what the major properties are of each of the states, and looking at which of those properties fire is able to qualify as. By doing this, we’ll be able to get a basic idea of where fire would make sense.

Finding Flaming Hot Properties

Well, let’s start by comparing fire to a gas. Most gases have no fixed shape or volume. Fire doesn’t really have a shape, and the volume expands or contracts depending on what you add to it (in this case, oxygen). So it’s a gas, right? Not quite — if you put fire in a container, it’s not going to expand and fill the container in the same way as any other gas. This disqualifies it from constituting as a gas.

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Some of the basic molecules and layouts of the states of matter.

Next, we’ll check out a solid. That would mean it has a fixed shape, nice and stable. The biggest issue here is fire not having this main, integral property. If you try and pick it up, it will burn through your hand (likely), rather than keeping the same shape you found it in. It moves if you blow on it. Fire isn’t a solid, either.

Up next: a liquid. Liquids don’t have to conform to a particular shape — meaning it’s looking good for fire — but they also do have a fixed volume, something the fire undoubtedly lacks. So it isn’t really a liquid either.

If you look at fire’s atomic structure, as well, it’s not exactly able to form structures like the other forms of matter, not under the influence of a magnetic field. That means you’ll never be able to have a fire electromagnet — sorry to disappoint. In addition, fire will cease to exist if it isn’t continually fed — unlike all other forms of matter, which are able to continually exist.

Lastly, laws of physics don’t permit extracting more energy out of a substance than you put in. That’s like getting more money out of an already-empty debit account; it won’t work. There’s overwhelming evidence that fire isn’t any of the aforementioned states of matter. So what is it?

There’s one final state of matter, and that’s plasma.

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Answered by saritabhatt780
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The state of fire is plasma (mostly). Science cannot precisely describe the true nature of fire, but to clear up the doubts of inquisitive minds, fire is most similar to plasma! Plasma resembles a gas more than any other state of matter, but it behaves very differently from a gas.

Every object that has ever existed on this planet can be classified into three basic states of matter: solid, liquid or gas. That’s what we were told to believe in our science classes, right? But… what about fire? Imagine holding fire in your hands like a brick, storing it in some kind of vessel or even better, trying to fill a balloon with a raging inferno! Doesn’t seem possible, right? To all those people who scratched their heads during those boring chemistry classes, here’s a piece of trivia: fire doesn’t really belong to any of the aforementioned groups. In fact, the closest state of matter that it can be compared to is plasma. Plasma?

What on God’s green earth is that?

Plasma? Plasma!

Let’s rewind and take a look at some of the earlier theories developed by humans to give tangible meaning to their outlandish findings. Before Sir William Crookes identified the fourth state of matter (plasma) in 1879 , mankind only believed in three states of matter that were available to them. Before the advent of the idea of plasma, man believed that fire was actually a separate element.

Plasma is a cloud of protons, neutrons, and electrons where all the electrons have isolated themselves from their respective molecules and atoms, giving plasma the unique ability to act as a whole, rather than as a bunch of individual atoms. It pretty much behaves like a high school punk who decides to abandon his set of friends, only to succumb to a life of solitude. Aside from the hypothetical existence of “Dark Matter”, plasma is the most abundantly and scientifically accepted form of ordinary matter found throughout the universe!

Plasma resembles a gas more than any other state of matter, but it behaves very differently from a gas. This is because the free electrons are not in constant physical contact with one another due to a lack of affinity towards each other. This means that plasma can flow like a liquid or a fluid, comprised of specific areas that are like groups of atoms sticking together. This property of plasma differentiates it from all other gases.

In other words, the exact definition of fire is still a bit of a mystery. Science cannot precisely describe the true nature of fire, but to clear up the doubts of inquisitive minds, fire is most similar to plasma!

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